From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 12:27:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D3CC37B401 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29123 invoked by uid 100); 15 Oct 2001 19:27:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15307.14478.178792.540856@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:27:10 -0500 To: "Philip Paeps" Cc: questions@freebsd.org, bsdspaceman@yahoo.com Subject: RE: An emacs error In-Reply-To: <112805489@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Philip Paeps types: > > I just used /stand/sysinstall to add emacs to my > > FreeBsd4.3 machine, and when I try to create a file > > with emacs I get this error: > > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXaw.so.6" > > not found > > > > Can anyone tell me what I might be missing? > You are missing XFree86. That is to say, the port you installed requires the > X11 libraries, and it can't find them. I don't use emacs (vi man), but perhaps > there's a port which doesn't require X11 somewhere? All the emacs ports can be built without X11 - just do the build as "make -DWITHOUT_X11", and it'll build it that way. It's not clear you can find a package that's built that way. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message